Ex-Yankees pitcher makes painful confession about hitting rock bottom after winning 1999 World Series
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By all accounts, pitcher Dan Naulty had limited impact on the New York Yankees in 1999. Acquired in a trade with the Minnesota Twins after the 1998 season, Naulty made 33 regular-season relief appearances and compiled a 4.38 ERA. He didn’t take the mound at all in the 1999 World Series, when the Yankees swept the Atlanta Braves for their second straight championship. But in the hours after the series-clinching Game 4 victory, Naulty stared down his demons.
NBC Sports’ Peter King wrote Monday about his Podcast of the Week: “Crushed,” by Joan Niesen for Religion of Sports and PRX. According to King, Naulty is one of the main voices in the third episode. Naulty had stopped using steroids by the time he arrived in New York, but his drug use left some pretty deep scars. Here’s what Naulty had to say about the night the Yankees won the 1999 Fall Classic.